Economist

Amazon
Seattle - United States
S: Competitive

DESCRIPTION
Amazon aims to exceed the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, Amazon has invested in Amazon F3 Retail, a world class customer-centric operation. We are looking for a dynamic, resourceful, and organized Economist within Amazon F3 organization to develop new, data-driven solutions to support the most critical components of this rapidly scaling operation.

The Amazon F3 team has an opening for applied micro, empirical IO, and time series and forecasting with demonstrated industry, policy, or academic experience. You will apply economic theory to build econometric models, and prototype and put into production scalable implementations in partnership with technical teams, using Amazon's world class data systems. You will be expected to be a thought leader as we chart new courses with our customer delivery support technologies. Successful candidates will have a deep knowledge of quantitative modelling in at least one area (ML, forecasting/time series, optimization, causal modeling), the ability to build and refine models that can be implemented in production, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems.

Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company. The economics community at Amazon has grown tremendously in the past few years – economists in Amazon F3 partner with economists' company-wide to tackle some of the hardest problems at an innovative startup within Amazon.

As part of the F3 organization, you'll partner closely with Science, Product, Tech, and Program teams to design innovative solutions to organizational and business problems, communicating highly complex findings to multiple audiences. The ability to understand and measure policy effects and how it integrate them into downstream optimization systems is a highly valuable asset. You may come from any one of a variety of econometric backgrounds, but you must be comfortable with multiple modeling techniques, be able to acquire new techniques with practice, and be willing to show flexibility in finding the right technique to match the research problem. Our economists and scientists work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into practice.

Key Responsibilities:
· Conceptualize and lead global research initiatives
· Guide the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects
· Conduct, direct, and coordinate all phases of research projects, demonstrating skill in all stages of the analysis process, including defining key research questions, recommending measures, working with multiple data sources, evaluating methodology and design, executing analysis plans, interpreting and communicating results
· Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver, and you are deeply quantitative, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· PhD in Economics
· 1+ year of experience in industry, consulting, government or academic research

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Strong background in statistics methodology, applications to business problems, and/or big data
· Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment.
· Strong research track record
· Effective verbal and written communications skills
· Preferred specialties in forecasting and time series, or applied micro, but economists with strong optimization experience are also encouraged to apply
· Applicants with considerably more experience are also strongly encouraged
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

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